EXCLUSIVE: New York FBI Director urges vigilance as hate crimes surge

While officials say there are no credible threats at this time, they point to recent events to show that hate is translating into threats - if not outright violence.

FBI NY Director James Smith told FOX 5 NY that his office is at a state of alarm equal to what New York experienced right after 9/11 as hate crimes surge nationwide.In a sit-down interview with FOX 5 NY, a day after FBI Director Christopher Wray testified before Congress that the threat level in the US is at a "whole new level," the head of the FBI in New York says his office is at a state of alarm equal to what New York experienced right after 9/11.

"We’re running down every lead that’s out there because we don’t know what we don’t know." Smith told us. "When you bring violence in with that hate speech or threat - well then it becomes a crime," Smith said.

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